How do our distributions stack up? 📊

Distributions

Do we agree on ratings?

Controversial beers

Differences from global

Breweries 🏭

Ratings by brewery for each user. User must have had 5 or more unique beers from the brewery.

Top rated

Brewery rating table

Styles 💃

Ratings by style for each user. Note: “meta” style refers to the first part of the style while substyle refers to the entire style (e.g. IPA - Imperial/Double would have a meta style of IPA and a “substyle” style of IPA - Imperial/Double).

Meta styles table

Substyles table

More detailed style information

ABV and IBU 🤢

Prediction 🧐

I fit a 10-fold cross-validated random forest to predict each user’s ratings. Reported here are the Pearson score of each model as well as estimated importance of each feature in prediction (and the associated standard deviation).

A few beers later… 🍻